Results 4,541-4,560 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Order of Business. (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Bill be coming to the House next week if completed in the Seanad?
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: One minute remains to the Deputy.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy's time has expired.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Bannon's time has concluded. I understand Deputy Johnny Brady intends to share time.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will list the duties and responsibilities of the staff employed in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27235/10]
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of professional fees paid under the general medical services scheme; the measures that have been taken to reduce the cost of these fees since 2008; the savings achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27370/10]
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (24 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to the Exchequer of drugs paid for under different schemes; the measures that have been taken to reduce these costs since 2008; the savings achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27371/10]
- Patient Safety: Motion (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: There is no doubt that there is a crisis of confidence in the health service that has been caused by a succession of scandals in recent years, most of them relating to misdiagnosis. The one described by Melissa Redmond on television, and other mothers who subsequently came forward, went to the core of many women's need to feel confident in the early stages of pregnancy. When they are told...
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: We were discussing amendments Nos. 28, 30, 71 and 72. Amendment No. 72 is in my name and Deputy Shatter already addressed his amendments. The amendments are related in so far as they pertain to relationship between the biological parents and their spouses or relatives and their various rights to adoption and access to their children. Amendment No. 72 proposes that a parent, relative or...
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: According to the explanatory memorandum, the purpose of the Bill is to provide "for restating or updating of the provisions of the Adoption Acts 1952-1998, as appropriate, and for the repeal of those Acts. It also gives force of law to the Hague Convention". The purpose of the amendments is to ensure the legislation is as comprehensive as possible, which is clearly not the intention of the...
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Lest I am misunderstood, I was referring to domestic adoptions.
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 25, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(7) In exercising its functions in relation to recognition of an adoption effected outside the State, the Authority shall insofar as possible recognise an adoption effected outside the State by a person who was ordinarily resident in the jurisdiction in which the adoption was effected at the time it was...
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 33: In page 25, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: 21.âA person or couple who has or have prior to the commencement of this Part adopted a child from another country, may notwithstanding this Act conduct a second or subsequent adoption from that country within 5 years of such commencement if the Authority is satisfied that the standards that are being or...
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 41: In page 26, line 7, after "mother" to insert the following: ", father (if named on the child's birth certificate),".
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: I support the amendment. In the small number of cases that have been described, the best interests of the child would be served by allowing the adoption to take place. Therefore, the amendment should be accepted by the House.
- Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 54: In page 31, line 7, after "them" to insert the following: "(or either of them, if a failure by one only of the married couple to comply with this section would not seriously threaten the welfare of the child)". I am proposing to amend the wording of section 34, which currently provides that an adoption order shall not be made "unless the Authority is satisfied that...
- Written Answers — Carbon Levy: Carbon Levy (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way he intends off-setting the impact of higher fuel costs on poorer households as a result of the introduction of carbon levies. [27993/10]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the recruitment process for the 200 new social worker posts being recruited this year; if it is the case that social workers who are in temporary positions with the Health Service Executive are being given priority; if those temporary positions will be filled when current holders of such posts are given permanent positions; if those...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in identifying funding to re-open the respite house at Clonile, County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28465/10]